Truth
Engineering (Tru'eng) considers the
modern world's dilemmas and weighs in with a
novel approach. Mankind has been tribal, for
a very long time, with inter-tribe conflicts
being more the norm than not. But, we can
take the turmoil back a step to the family:
the tale of Cain and Abel is sufficient.

Before the modern age, conflicts were local
and limited due to serious constraints on
travel. Too, technology's influence on
weapons, both those of the offensive and
defensive types, was a damper.

Along with families and tribes, as a means
for identifying intra/inter relationships,
we can add abilities, both mental and
physical. Let's take the latter, first. One
word is all that we need to describe a major
factor in the mid-to-south and western
European realms: Vikings. However, if we
were to be a little more diligent, we would
include those threats from migrating hordes
from the East who were bent on claiming land
and showing superiority (Eastern Europe will
get more notice, in the future, as the
savior of Western Civilization, many times
over).

Due to the threats, we see that the need for
defense, then, came early. For example,
castles and keeps came about as defensive
collective means. Yet, progress allowed,
later, such shelters to be reduced to dust
from afar; so, where was one to hide. We
will ignore, for now, personal defense and
get back to it later.

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To leap ahead, tribes abound today that are
artificial aggregations, whether done by
choice or by happenstance. Conflicts are
everywhere dense. One main difference now is
computation and all that can be associated
with such. This progress (?) toward our
current prowess was the result of long years
of effort by many. A lot of it has a good
basis, from insights drawn from mathematics
and science and from adeptness acquired by
engineering and technology. But, at the same
time, one can talk about genies (nod to
another tribal (set of tribes) phenomenon
whose interplay with the West is more than a
thousand-years long and whose fundamentals
are more common to us than many may (or want
to) recognize) being let "of the bottle"
which are, now, far beyond our control.
Short-sightedness comes to mind; however,
too, blinders are of many sorts, including
those that color higher-order (supposedly)
thought. It is at the foundations of the
trend toward abstraction and artifact that
we will start our description.

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So, now, let's look at the mental abilities.
Since STEM is the focus for a lot of effort,
we will lean toward that. However, arts and
other forms of human endeavors, say everyday
coping in a competent manner (especially,
when having to deal with machinations of
high-IQ (however tested) morons), are as
worthy of our attention (as we will show,
given time; using smart with money is really
oxymoron'ic).

Initially, we will use the "S" and "M" as
the other two are assumed to be (but it has
not been proven) subservient to these. And,
as the little joke goes, mathematics talks
to God (however, does God talk mathematics
(only)? - to the wits, even without
quasi-empirical concerns coming to the fore,
why would LOGOS consist solely of
mathematics or be of that ilk? please, get a
grip on yourselves).